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Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations of Literature

Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations of Literature

Ellis, David

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0718897188
ISBN13: 9780718897185
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: May 25 2023
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Perspectives on the perils and pitfalls of ageing, viewed through the lens of novels, plays and poems from across history.

Given the increasing number of old people, the proliferation of books about old age is hardly surprising. Most of these come from cultural historians or social scientists and, when those with a literary background have tackled the subject, they have largely done so through what are known as period studies. In Blasted with Antiquity, David Ellis provides an alternative. Skipping nimbly from Cicero to Shakespeare, and from Wordsworth to Dickens and beyond, he discusses various aspects of old age with the help of writers across European history who have usually been regarded as worth listening to.

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